Sarah Garcia, known as “La Abuelita de México”, or “La Granny of national cinema”, was a Mexican actress and comedian. Although she began making films like any other artist, in 1934 during the so-called “Golden age of Mexican cinema“, Garcia caused a great impact when she decided to remove 14 teeth to be able to play the main role in a play entitled “My poor grandmother”, where she played an elderly woman.
belonging to the Golden age of Mexican cinema, Sarah Garcia, adopted that granny role for other film screenings. This characterization was very well received and she was very successful so she would choose to continue playing roles where she was seen as a grandmother or simply as an old woman.
The actress Sarah Garcia He was not only part of the cinema of the Golden age of Mexican cinemabut also participated in radio and television projects for the epoch. With her performance, she toured all of Mexico in the company of Mercedes Navarro, much has been said about the actress’s relationship with this woman and her sexual preferences. Let us remember that the collective LGBT not so long ago he did not enjoy the recognition of his rights to free choice.
It was on one of his trips that Sarah Garcia She met the father of her only daughter, Fernando Ibañez, with whom she traveled around the country. Sarah Garcia and Fernando Ibañez had a daughter named María Fernanda Ibañez who unfortunately passed away when she was 21 years old. The couple ended with a divorce and Sarah continued her work as an actress playing characters that went down in history of mexican cinema.
Little is known of the personal life of Sarah Garciathere were always rumors about her sexual preferences and about the sexual orientation of this actress in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. The comments assure that he had a relationship with another woman who was Mercedes Navarro, something that at that time was very frowned upon and was not accepted, forcing millions to live their election in secret, something that fortunately and thanks to the struggle of the collective LGBT, could have been reversed. Both met when they went to school together and then stopped seeing each other and met again when they were both divorced. In this regard, the actor Manuel Ibáñez in 2014 expressed: “Sarah Garcia He had had a girlfriend named Rosario and their relationship was very evident to the people who worked with the actress.”
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The hard story of Sara García “La Abuelita de México”: sacrifices, losses and a forbidden love for the time